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Leadership Without Authority By Aeneas McDonnell

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank London talk, Aeneas McDonnell , Director of Product at The Times and Sunday Times shares with us some guidelines on how we as product people can be leaders without having clear authority. Leadership, he says, is a choice you make rather than a place where you sit. His key points include: Anyone can be a leader.

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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

What about guidelines? Consider removing policies and procedures and create guidelines and constraints instead. ” Trina's questions prompted the senior managers to consider those guidelines and constraints. The company did have a specific guideline: they wanted everyone to take at least two weeks of vacation a year.

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A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Roman Pichler

For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. The second line names the skills areas the learning goals belong to, which I’ll cover in more detail in the next section.

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Leadership Tip 14: Reduce Other People’s Dependence on Your Decisions

Johanna Rothman

See Leadership Tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead. Instead, can you offer guidelines and constraints so other people can make decisions? This is a part of the series of leadership tips. They don't relinquish their previous work—which prevents other people from learning.

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454: How product leaders can best increase team performance – with Tami Reiss

Product Innovation Educators

When you’re doing strategy deployment, you’re not supposed to tell someone what to do; you’re supposed to give them goals and guidelines that help them feel empowered within those guidelines to spread their wings and make choices. Leadership is what you are doing that makes people follow you.

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Leadership Tip 17: Consciously Choose How You Optimize the Salary Money

Johanna Rothman

It's not, but that's a different leadership tip.) Here are my guidelines for these decisions: Insist on only two weeks of notice for anyone, any time. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. They think that fairness is part of their culture. Tim and his managers want to be fair. You can't be.

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Product Principles – A Leadership Tool

BrainMates

The Product Leadership struggle is akin to the Entrepreneurship struggle because the role has no clear learning path. Product Principles are a simple set of guidelines that reminds the team to behave in an agreed way. The Struggle is when you don’t believe you should be Chief Product Officer of the company. What are Product Principles?